An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination Blog Tour plus giveaway

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken was published on September 10, 2008 by Hachette Books and there’s a blog tour to celebrate it today.  You can read my review here.  Check out these blogs for reviews, interviews, giveaways, etc:
medieval bookworm
Library Queue
The Book Nest
Books in Every Room
S. Krishna’s Books
A Bookworm’s [...]

We have a winner!

My giveaway of The Book of Lies ended at midnight last night.  I used random.org to determine the winner and it is Lisa Lynne.  She posted about this contest on her blog, and won with one of her extra entries.  You can check out her beautiful blog here.  Congratulations!  I’ll get the book in the [...]

This and that

 We’re driving home today, so I just have a short post.  This is our nephew Chuck.  He is the Hokies Number One fan and their lucky charm.  While we were at Carl’s parents’, he came over to watch the Virginia Tech – Nebraska game with us, and he was really happy when the Hokies won!

The [...]

Review: When We Were Romans

When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale is told from the perspective of 9 year old Lawrence.  He lived in England with his mother, Hannah, and his sister, Jemima.  Lawrence’s parents were divorced and his mother thought his father was spying on them and breaking into their cottage.  So, Hannah packed Lawrence and Jemima up [...]

Random things about me

Debbie tagged me for this meme a while ago.  Actually, she combined two memes.  In one you’re supposed to list 6 “unspectacular quirks” about yourself and in the other you’re supposed to list 6 random things about yourself.  I think I’m a pretty average, run-of-the mill person, so I couldn’t think of anything.  I asked [...]

Cheese Straws

We’re heading to Virginia for a family reunion this weekend.  Since we can’t take anything that needs to be refrigerated, I decided to make cheese straws.  These are a Southern tradition.  In the South, they say you’re not legally married if you don’t have cheese straws at your wedding reception.  I got this recipe from [...]

Fall Into Reading 2008

I found this reading challenge on Callapidder Days and decided to take part in it.  The rules of this challenge are pretty easy.  Just set some reading goals for your Fall reading.  You can read as little or as much as you’d like.  Here are the books I’ve chosen, in no particular order:

Kindred Spirits by [...]

Review: The Lucky One

Nicholas Sparks is the best-selling author of numerous novels.  His latest work, The Lucky One, will be available from Hachette Books on September 30, 2008.
Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a beautiful young woman while doing a tour of duty in Kuwait.  After his attempt to find the owner failed, he began carrying the photo [...]

Tuesday Thingers

Today’s Question: Favorite Authors. Who do you have named in your LT account as favorite authors? Why did you choose them? How many people share your choices? Can you share a picture of one of them?
I have to admit that I didn’t have any authors listed as favorites until after I read today’s question.  I [...]

Review: Tears of the Desert

Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir is a very emotional and riveting book.  I found this book very painful to read at times, yet I couldn’t put it down, even though I was sobbing at some points.  I was lucky enough to receive this Random House publication from [...]